Medicinal Flora of the Atlantic Region of Nicaragua

Abstract

In this text they are enumerated the different researches carried out around medicinal plants in Nicaragua are enumerated, the environmental factors that endanger the existence of these types of plants and how the ethno botanical information is being lost at an even faster rate than the species. It explains the methodology for: the study of herbarium specimens (obtaining ethno botanical, floristic, ecological and taxonomic data), their identification and also for laboratory work (chemical analysis and bioassays of botanical specimens). It reflects on ethno botany and intellectual property rights as a fundamental human right of all indigenous peoples and the danger they face from transnationals and corporations. At the end it presents pictures of native medicinal species, their habitat of origin, the use by indigenous groups and their bioactivity.